New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-30
THE TRENCHES MUST CLOSE.
SUBWAY PERMITS EXPIRE TOMORROW.
PRESENT CONDITION or THE wORK-ARE THE OPEN
IA HEALTH.

PRESENT CONDITION or THE wORK-ARE THE OPEN
bitches DANGEROUS TO HEALTH.
Tho time for closing the subway trenches expires
to-day. All the permits issued by General Newton for
opening the trenches limited to December ], and
the subway Commission and Contractor Crlmmins
have been Informed that no trenches can b'
opened after to-day, except under conditions men
toned In General Ncwton's Instructions. There Is
still some misunderstanding between Mr. CrimmIns and
General Newton on the point, and It was said yestor-
day the matter might be taken into the courts.
The telegraph and telephone companies begin
Ming to make use of the subways that now ready
for their use Ninety days were allowed the com.
panes by the Board of Electrical Control to place these
wires In the snbways so that the poles could be takcn
down In the streets All OF tho lines cannot be- used
at once not only of the subways not COM
plcted, but many in streets In the upper portion Of
the city have not yet been touched, and work them
will not begin until next spring.
A letter sent recently by Commissioner Moss
reminding the companies that the limit Of time for
placing their wires in the subways was approaching,
and asking what had been done by them. In reply
the Western Union Company stated yesterday that It
had force Of men at work which had drawn two
cables of fifty wires each through the pipes from
Broadway and Dcy-st. to Exchange place. Other
cables each containing fifty wires, will be run through
the conduts from tho Western Union Building through
Park Row to the Bridge, where they Will make con-
ncction with the wires which are carried on the Sec
Ond and Third Avenue Elevated roads. As soon as
this is done the company Will be able to take down this
wires The poles In these streets, and the poles can
be removed the fire telegraph and other
lines have been provided for
General Manager IIeidckGper, OF the Metropolitan
Telephone Company, wrote that his company had no
poles in view Broadway between Fourteenth and
Forty second ss., I'm ixlave. from TWenf ysecond
to Thirty second SITS. Workmcn employed In
moving the poles and wires SIXtha from Thirty
second TO Thirty-nlnth SITS. New cables have been
ordered for wires between Dey and Corilandt s's and
they Will be placed I'm the cOndnits fast as they arc
received. others arc expected In few days from
Chicago and Will be placed IN Fifty eighth-st between
Third and Eighth and the poles taken down from
those streets
The Brush Electrical Illuminating Company, through
It's secretary J. C. Allen, wrote to Mr.. Moss that tho
cables for electric lights have been ordered and vii!
be plarc I'm the broadway cOndults from Fourteenth
81. 10 Thirty fOnrh-st IN few days When these
arc ready test Will he made by the company, and u
the lines work satisfactorily the remaining wires will
bc placed under ground fast the pipes ready
for them.
According to the health authorities the injury dons
10 public health by the digging OF the snbways has
been greatly overesimatcd. Or. Edison said yester-
tiOns had only slight rnfavorable effect in this
way Most OF the Odor com planned Of he said was
due 70 the tar, carboic acid and other similar suh-
stances used in the work which really acted dlsn.
fcctsnts and thus made the excavations practically
harmless. The Doctor said that he could sec how
any danger ronld arise from continuing tho WORK
through the winter.